Several witnesses said they saw a woman in a car swerving before she hit a bicyclist and fled the scene in the Near West Side neighborhood in April, prosecutors said
As Courtney Bertucci approached Peoria Avenue, she swerved into oncoming traffic again and struck Paresh Chhatrala head-on, Cook County prosecutors said. Witnesses then chased her down and detained her until Chicago police arrived.
A woman was chased down and detained by witnesses who allegedly saw her drive into the opposite lane of traffic last April on the Near West Side and slam into a.
The woman allegedly struck Paresh Chhatrala as he biked along Madison Street near Peoria on April 16. She had swerved to avoid a metal plate on the road and struck him head-on, police said.